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From: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com>
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To: adrian@deathstar.ml.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: socket redirector
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> From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@deathstar.ml.org>
> I'm writing a quick socket redirector for something. Its run out of inetd,
> and basically opens a socket somewhere and acts as a pipe between the two.
> I'm using select(), and its working fine. The only problem I'm having is
> that I don't know how to tell when the remote end closes the connection
> down, so that I can just close everything down, and quit.
>
> Any ideas on how I'd do this?

Get this from the distribution:

	socket-1.1          create tcp socket and connect to stdin/out

Note that I have loaded it but not tested it.

To answer the source question, I think it's wait for the socket to
go ready on read, and a zero byte read is EOD, just like a file.

-ahd-